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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (3 children)

"I'm livin' the dream (and would like to wake up)" is a personal favorite of mine.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

"Another day in paradise."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

"well, someone's dream" is something I like to tack on the end haha

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

"Nightmares are dreams too"

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So, here's a fuck up from earlier this year:

A family friend came over one day. I was out by my car, having returned from a visit to the shops. I hadn't seen him in years, and he asks how I was. I responded with "Surviving", before saying something about my degree progress and stuff.

He goes a bit quiet and awkward, eventually making his way inside while I finished what I was doing.

I walked inside and walked past my parents talking to him. Then I remembered something. His partner was diagnosed with a brain tumour that had metastasised from breast cancer. I also remembered that a few days ago, my parents went to visit his partner in the palliative care unit because she lost the fight. I realised then that he clearly came around to tell my parents that she had passed away. She fucking died and I responded with "Surviving".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Reading this after the thread from that german kid wondering why Americans keep using racial qualifiers like white, black, etc really brings the point home.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

My parents will always specify if the person they're referring to or telling a story about is black. So to help them see how pointless it is I will always specify when someone is white.

They never get it and they'll always pause the conversation "what does him being white have to do with anything? You said he was driving a Benz, that's normal for white people."

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

"Still breathing"

"I'm here, aren't I?" (usually used at work)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not sure I get it. So what is the answer if you're not white?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Like "Dad responses", whiteness is a state of mind 🧘‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ok but I still don't understand the joke :(

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Like "Dad responses", these are just common cliche ways for white American men to respond to questions - in this case, "How are things going?"

In this case, the responses listed, while seemingly anodyne, are generally given out as a means of downplaying one's own troubles - "It's going" being "It's going badly enough that I don't want to talk about it in any more detail" - and "Hanging in there" being "I'm managing, but only barely."

So both, while not being a cause for alarm by a surface reading, are actually (commonly) given out when significantly distressed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity can you do the other colors too?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, I'm not the original creator of the post; you'd have to ask them for more droll observations of common American responses (and their deeper meanings) by race.

[–] sneaky 4 points 1 month ago

I am an American (sorry) and this doesn't seem like it should have anything to do with race.. "How's it going" is pretty commonly used across races in the US.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The horrors persist but so do I

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"I will overcome."

"I keep dragging myself along."

"Somehow, I remain alive."

"I will perish, but not like this, hopefully, not today."

"Everything is shit and I think we should all get a grenade and end it all."

... and other reasons why you don't ask a Lithuanian how's it going for them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I’ve taken to saying ‘adequately, thanks’.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

My Irish American family is a lot like this. One of my favorites that I only use with them goes something like this:

Getting old sucks, and I cannot in good conscience recommend it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

"Oh you know. How are you?"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

"Moving forward at a rate of 1 second per second."

Usually at work, in meetings.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

"still breathing"

Personal favorite

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I like dropping, "It's not, but how are you?" an easy and more polite way of saying "you don't give two shits about me, so let's talk about you."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I do that way too often and.. I wonder if it's not a special kind of self poisoning.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

It most undoubtedly is, but it keeps me from saying worse when I don't want to play fine.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Somehow I've managed to remain alive."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My favourite is similar "I continue to live"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Alternatively: "Despite my best efforts, I remain alive."

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

the horrors persist, yet so do i

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

The horrors persist, so must I

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

"it is what it is"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

My go to is "Ah yeah", which could mean I've not considered it, but also dodges me venting the stress I'm feeling. It's a win-win.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

How's it going?

Haha, you know it!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

"...Dealin'..."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

What do I do if these are my go-to’s?!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Same as ever.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

"I'm above ground."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"It's going" for me isn't a positive response, but I'd say it's more neutral than anything. I wonder if age and/or region factor in. If my answer is something like "well, I'm still alive" that definitely means nothing good is going on (or, perhaps more accurately, I can't see the good because of all the bad at that particular moment).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah for me it's the same as saying 'same old same old' or 'more of the same' or 'same shit different shovel'

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

How's it going?

"Yeah not bad, stable downfall"

Not sure on which podcast I heard this

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

"Not too bad" so as to make them think not bad at all when really, it's bad, but could be worse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The phrases (And the totally unnecessary racial qualifiers) may be but I'm pretty sure men are conditioned to suppress their emotions anywhere there's patriarchy, which is most places these days.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

"Relentlessly."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I'm still alive.

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